39+ J G Ballard High Rise Background. I was sold on j. After internment in a civilian prison camp, his family returned to england in 1946.

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Whether mazes, blocks or bunkers, ballard was drawn to the psychology of enclosed, brutal environments. The son of a british business executive based in china, ballard spent four years of his boyhood in a japanese prison camp near shanghai during world war ii. The film adaptation of high rise, directed by ben wheatley (kill list, sightseers) will be released in september 2015, starring tom hiddleston, jeremy irons, sienna miller, luke evans and elisabeth.

This inner space, rather than outer space, was his sf realm.

Ballard's 1975 novel, hit british screens in march and american theaters at the end of april. The literary distinctiveness of ballard's fiction has given rise to the adjective ballardian, defined by the collins english dictionary as resembling or suggestive of the conditions described in j. Here ballard portrays morality as conventional. Those overly sensitive to the observations' bleakness, or immerse yourself into the film's style, enjoy the outstanding performances and cinematography, and enjoy decrypting j.g.ballard's metaphors through ben wheatley and amy.